Improvement in tallying-register for freight



F. NICHOLSON.

Freight Register. No. 105,118. Patented July 5,1870.

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Letters Patent No. 105,118, dated July 5, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'IALLYING-REG-IS'IER FOR FREIGHT.

The Schedule referred to in thele Lotte" Patent and making part of the same.

I, FREDERIG NICHOLSON, of the town of Warsaw, in the county of Wyoming and State of New York, have invented a certain new and improved Freight-- Register, of which the following is a specification.

The first part of my invention relates tothe construction, application, and use of a lever, held by a spring in a position above a skid or rail, in such manner that barrels, casks, and other rolling freight, when passing over the skids in one direction, will be stopped by the square shoulder of the lever, and, when moving in the opposite direction, the lever will yield to the pressure of the barrel, swing upon its fulcrum, disappear below the surface of the skids, and, by means of suitable clock-work and one or more dial-plates, indicate and register such passage of the i paid barrel or other rolling freight over said skids and ever.

The second part of my invention relates to the combination and arrangement of a locking-lever and an opening or unlocking-lever, together with a twoarmed lever connecting them, for the purpose of providing a means for automatically fastening the registering-lever in its raised position as soon as a barrel has passed over it, by the weight of the barrel, and, in a like or similar manner, to unlock or release the registering-lever, and allow it to yield, and thereby register the passage of the barrel over it.

Figure I represents a side elevation of my improved register, as attached to one of a pair of skids, the casing being removed to show the operating parts.

Figure II is a top plan view.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

A represents a pair of skids, to one of which my improved registering apparatus is attached.

B represents an upright casing, containing clockwork, with one or more dial-plates, which indicate and register the number of barrels or other rolling freight which may be passed over the skids.

The clock-work can be arranged in a variety of ways. Either the dial-plates may be made to re volve, or a number of hands to move, and a'dialplate made stationary, the prime mover of this clockwork being a ratchet-wheel revolved intermittently by means of a spring pawl operated by a lever, O.

The lever 0 receives its motion from the registering-lever D, which is located within a hollow portion of one of the skids A.

The lever D is of a triangular shape, or nearly so. In one of its angles the bolt or screw (1 is located, which serves as a fulcrum, upon which the lever oscillates.

Another of its angles projects above the surface of the skid in such manner as to form an inclined plane from the fulcrum to its point, and a perpendicular face upon the end opposite the fulcrum.

This lever is held above the surface of the skid by the action of the spring-pawl, which operates the clock-work and indicator.

A barrel, rolling over the skid from the direction of the fulcrum ll, will press the top of the lever down below the skid, causing it to rock upon the bolt (1', and, as soon as the barrel has passed the lever and cleared its end, the same will spring up into its former raised position, and thus the ratchet-wheel will be moved one notch, and theindicator will tally one. The next barrel moved in the same direction over the skids will operate in a like manner, and the indicator tally two, and so on consecutively counting the number of barrels passing over the skid and the lever D with accuracy and precision.

No barrel rolling over the skids in the opposite direction can be counted, hence the tallying of accident-ally returning barrels is prevented.

G and H represent a pair of levers similar in construction to the lever D, their fulcrums being located upon the same side as that of the lever D.

The lever G I call the locking-lever, and is placed so as to be operated by the barrel after it has cleared the end of the lever D.

It is in contact with a two-armed lever, I, having its fulcrum below the lever D, and, when pressed down by the weight of the'barrel, will raise the opposite arm of the lever I so as to engage a notch or shoulder formed thereupon with the third angle of the lever D, and lock the same, t. 0., hold the lever in its raised position.

The lever II I call the opening or unlocking-lever, and is located upon the opposite side of the lever D, near its fulcrum. It is in contact with the notched arm of the lever I, and operates in a manner to unlock the lever D.

Then a barrel uponthe skids approaches the register from that side, it is compelled to first pass over that lever H, and thereby press it down and release the lever D. Then it passes 'over the said lever D, and is counted by the indicator above described, and finally passes over the lever G, which again locks the lever D, as aforesaid.

A hinged cover with a lock may be provided to cover the three levers D, G, and H, to prevent any one from tampering with the mechanism while the apparatus isnot used.

An alarm-bell within the case B, arranged in connection with the clock-work so as to announce when a certain given number of barrels have been tallied or registered, may be applied as a very convenient and useful addition of the indicator.

I do not claim. broadly the, construction of a register for tallying automatically by an intermittent depression of lovers, nor the employment of clock-work and dial-plates in connection therewith.

ing-lever G, opening-lever H, and lever I, with the registering-lever D, for the purposes and substantially as herein set forth.

Witnesses B. A. ORlPPEN, P. TRUESDELL.

F. NICHOLSON. 

